A.N.N.E News

Happy Holidays!

I am back from the dead, metaphorically speaking of course. I got back to working on A.N.N.E a few months back and now it's time for a little update! There are still a few improvements to be made but I am very happy with this latest update. My plan at the moment is to slice the game into chapters and release these chapters every few months depending on the time I can spend on it and how much I am chasing my tail trying to fix bugs and issues since I am the only one working on A.N.N.E at the moment with the occasional help of my old friend and programmer David. I am having a blast.

You can see the changelog here : https://discord.com/channels/432976887782834179/1056288904711516254


Letting my creativity loose and working on lots of smaller projects during the past two years have helped me clear my mind. It's easy for me to be objective with A.N.N.E. I am confident I can complete my vision and I am having fun again.

Hope you like the new Artwork :) inspired by old NES box art and retro sci-fi movie posters.

Sorry for those who made it really far in the previous version but we're starting over :). I would recommend to please delete your save game files and start from scratch as too many changes have been made since the last version. This is the last time that this will be required since I want the upcoming updates to continue the adventure where you left off. Enjoy the game until you make it to World 2 and then hopefully I can have another meaty update by the end of the first quarter of 2023 (wow look at that CEO talk). Thank you to everyone who has posted lengthy QOL and bug reports on Steam forums and Discord. I will get to all of those eventually.

Lotsa love, lots of hope, and best wishes for the Holidays everyone.


Mo


PS: at the moment of writing this, LINUX and MAC builds are being uploaded...

Hello,

We have been hard at work bringing A.N.N.E online since June of this year. Slowly but surely. As you can see here: www.annewars.com.

If we can we will eventually bring A.N.N.E inside A.N.N.E Wars where it will be online coop. however until then we are slowly building it back from the ground up. It will feel like A.N.N.E. But online and free to play. Of course we are preparing some awesome perks/special accounts to those who purchased or backed up A.N.N.E. However these are plans are are not a 100% certain thing as funding for the game is not infinite. however we are hoping to be able to easily maintain and frequently update A.N.N.E Wars in order to warrant occasional visit from you guys.

More updates and news on the website eventually.

Peace

Mo

Greetings everyone,

Well I tried to get everything ready for today but there are too many things that just came up along the way that made it hard to succeed. I'm burned, unsatisfied and I need to clear my mind.

This is the last update for a while as I am taking a break from this never ending ordeal. Besides starting a full time job soon my main focus will be put on my kids and selling my video game collection.

I will eventually get back at it part time, and try to bring closure to this project. Until then there's something there to play but it's unrefined and unfinished. Time will provide me with the answers.

Nick said it would be a good idea to share what i have learned with all of you but honestly I don't really have anything to say at this point. I will take some time off to reflect on the experience and share with you the whole story down the road.

I have to thank everybody that help me so much all this time and especially Nick (@Avejoe) for sticking around even when i couldn't pay him to help me with finding and fixing bugs and the forum. Without him i think I would have come to this point much sooner and there's a big hole in my office wall to remind me of that everyday.

The new update is there on Steam. That's it for me, for now.

I wish you guys the best,

Mo

Hello everyone, 

Mo here.

What a crazy situation we all got ourselves into. I hope that you have all managed to stay away from this bad virus situation. On our end so far so "good" (for the moment) all relatives are well but there are quite a few cases in our city so we try to stay frosty. Nick works from home testing and answering your questions on Discord and Steam. If you think you have lost your save games they are just in a different folder (apparently Inc. was added in the company name and it changed the installation folder.

The current situation has made it hard to put extra hours on the game (kids being at home) and also Nick can not really be hands on with fixing bugs but still the pace has been pretty decent and i am still confident that I will be able to have the end game ready for May 20 (minus maybe some secret stuff...). I will keep on patching and improving past that point (due to the sheer size of the game and all the things i really want to fix and polish still).

That being said we have fixed some major bugs since the last update and we also added lots of additional icons on the map now showing arcades, rusty doors and everything else interactive that should be displayed. It helps a lot.

I just finished polishing Area 4 and I am going back to Area 5 and the end game stuff: level design polish, bosses polish and fixes. I still have some player and ship weapon bullets and abilities to polish and other small bugs and tweaks so there will be updates and improvements past May 20.

Thank you for your patience and stay safe.

Mo

Hello,

on May 20 2020 we will release version 1.0 of A.N.N.E. This will pretty much be the first fully playable from start to finish version of the game.

This year has been pretty wacked for us. We've had to get back to a barebone team, for the past few months it's been pretty much me, full time, and Nick (@avejoe) helping out three days a week with customer service, testing and even some level design camera and trigger bug fixing. Without the engineer some issues take a bit more time to resolve but we've been finding our way around and solving some of those issues with a bit of digging.

There is a game update coming soon. With a few things left to fix, it should be good to go by January 10. After that the final update will be on may 20, 2020. I do not know if the final update will lift the game from early access but it will surely be the first fully playable draft of the game. I do not know how many updates will be released between the january 10 and May 20th update, but we will make sure to patch all major issues.

Thank you and Happy Holidays!

Mo